Review | High Tea at Zioux
The luxury champagne lounge and cocktail bar is serving up a decadent high tea
There are few better ways to spend a Saturday afternoon than in a beautiful space, indulging in delicious food and quaffing Champagne, and there are few better places to do so in Johannesburg than Sandton’s Zioux.
The Marble Group’s Champagne lounge and cocktail bar, helmed by chef Moses Moloi, is serving up a decadent high-tea offering, which offers just that. The multi-course menu features a sweet and savoury selection of high-tea treats, which range from the classic to the interesting.
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Rounding off the course is the classic high-tea staple of scones, here in the form of glorious little mouthfuls to be lathered with hibiscus butter, rhubarb jam and double-thick cream.
Following this sweet and savoury course is a final round of savouries. And while this is perhaps peculiar following the sweets, they are none the less delicious. Bringing the experience to a close are the crispy prawn cigars, superb buttermilk chicken steamed buns, cubed fillet kebabs and sweet and sticky corn fritters.
If I’d change anything about the meal it would be the order of the courses — it seems logical to start with lighter fish and vegetarian dishes, moving onto the meatier main-style canapés and followed by scones and sweets, rather than the mixed order it’s served in currently. Of the overall experience though, it’s absolutely stellar and a whole lot of fun, the over-the-top glamour and service style the restaurant is known for working so well with this type of elevated afternoon-tea offering.
It’s as opulent an experience as one would expect from Zioux, one that lends itself to getting dressed up, gathering a great group of friends and indulging long into the afternoon.
So successful has this offering been that the team has now extended it to both Saturdays and Sundays. High tea runs from 11am-4pm and costs R750.00pp (excluding drinks). Reservations are essential.
For bookings visit the Zioux website.